ASPIDER

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ASPIDER
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryTelecom
Founded2000 in Driebruggen NL
Headquarters
Woerden
,
The Netherlands
Number of employees
50-100
Websitewww.aspider.com

ASPIDER is the group name for a series of companies that are mostly based in Europe. The company name has evolved over the years as a result of acquisitions, mergers and restructuring. The company is an MVNE (Mobile Virtual Network Enabler), providing mobile services to companies that want to control their own network. Clients include enterprises, manufacturers, integrators, and the mobile operators themselves.

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History

Following the merger of ASPIDER and MEC Solutions in 2004, the company traded as ASPIDER Solutions. Following the acquisition of NGI in 2014 the company traded as ASPIDER-NGI. ASPIDER sold aspects of its M2M business in 2010 to Wyless [1] (which was subsequently purchased by Kore Wireless [2] ).

ASPIDER is traditionally known as a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE), delivering services to a variety of operators and MVNOs and MNOs (Postmobile, [3] Vodafone [4] and T-Mobile). More recently the company has been delivering services to Enterprises, Manufacturers and other MVNEs (SURFnet, [5] and has announced partnerships with various industry players for the use of eSIM in IoT initiatives (IDEMIA, [6] Oracle [7] ).

ASPIDER's promotion of eSIM [8] is notable because, when the initial specifications were announced, they were limited mainly to use-cases around operator selection and Remote SIM provisioning. ASPIDER has been promoting additional use cases more for enterprise applications - like authentication and identity management. The company has been working with industry groups like BTG [9] to get pilots off the ground with companies like SURFnet.

Operations

ASPIDER operated from a number of datacenters around the world and the largest of these was based in Malta. The Maltese operation included a full core network that interconnected to a number of operators, in particular with Vodafone Malta [4] in order to launch a number of MVNOs in Malta. The core network components featured the usual manufacturers in Cisco [10] and Oracle, [11] but also smaller specialist vendors like Blueslice [12] and BroadForward. [13] ASPIDER had also acquired technologies from eSERVGlobal for a variety of messaging and communications components. [14]

Locations

The company headquarters are in the Netherlands, with offices in Belgium, UK, USA, France, New Zealand and Malta. In previous years the company also had offices in Seattle (US), Ireland and Egypt.

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References

  1. ↑ M2M, Wyless and ASPIDER. "Wyless Announces Agreement to Acquire ASPIDER M2M". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2018-03-01.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Miglietta, Norman. "KORE to Acquire Wyless Group Holdings" . Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  3. ↑ Sharma, Ray. "ASPIDER-NGI supports Ireland's An Post to Relaunch MVNO Service" . Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  4. 1 2 "Vodafone To launch multiple MVNOs in partnership with Aspider Solutions - The Malta Independent". www.independent.com.mt. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  5. ↑ SURFnet. "Research into E-SIM security-related applications with ASPIDER-NGI". www.surf.nl. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  6. ↑ Journal, IOT. "ASPIDER-NGI Launches IoT Solution for Global Connectivity - IOT Journal". www.iotjournal.com. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  7. ↑ "Oracle Communications Network Charging and Control Enables Mobile Service Providers to Differentiate and Monetize Their Brand". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  8. ↑ "The SIM for the next Generation of Connected Consumer Devices - eSIM". eSIM. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  9. ↑ "BTG sluit partnership met ASPIDER-NGI – BTG". BTG (in Dutch). 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  10. ↑ "ASPIDER Delivers Virtual Network Services for Fast-Growing Internet of Things Market Using Cisco Virtualized Packet Core" . Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  11. ↑ "ASPIDER-NGI and the Oracle Acquisition Platform". video.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  12. ↑ "ASPIDER Solutions Selects Blueslice ngHLR to Extend Global MVNE Expansion" . Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  13. ↑ "News - BroadForward". BroadForward. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  14. ↑ "ASPIDER-NGI acquires technology from eServGlobal - IPv6.net". IPv6.net. 2016-07-13. Archived from the original on 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
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